Why are the NBA Finals so boring these days? How can they change it up?

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Did Cleveland even have any business being in the Finals? Were they even close to being the second best team? I was personally tired of the playoffs as soon as the Western Conference Finals were over. We've had much better teams in the West for nearly a full decade; in eight of the past 10 seasons, the best two teams played before the Finals. Umm, if that's not a major flaw in the system tell me what is? I’m sure Stern is looking into that right away, no wait, he has way too much pride to change that. It took him half the season to change the ball back even after two time MVP Steve Nash constantly complained. It’s truly bad for a sport when there is more talk about Kobe wanting to be traded, and how the lottery will make the West even more dominant for the next ten years (assuming Oden and Durant go 1 and 2) than actually talking about the blowouts going on for the F***ing Championship! Sure the conferences make sense during the regular season to cut down on travel, save expenses, and to keep the players healthier. My question is why don’t the best 16 teams get into the playoffs? There is an unfortunate predictability in the playoffs these days, which is the polar opposite of March Madness, and isn’t unpredictability supposed to be the exciting part. What made many people love the Warriors-Mavericks series was the coming out of nowhere factor. They were the George Mason of the NBA. Are we destined to see a Western Conference team dominate the winner between the Cavs, Bulls, and Heat every year for the next ten years? There are ways to fix this, but most likely these types of changes are always ignored! My solution is simple, we need brackets! So, in my theory the 2006-07 season 12 of the best 16 teams happened to reside in the west. You seed everyone based on record, so the best possible match-ups don’t happen until later in the playoffs. This would also force teams like Cleveland to get tested by a good team early. Like this year they would have had to play Denver in the first round as a 7 vs. 10 match-up. After that, they would’ve had to play either Phoenix or Washington. Most likely Phoenix, and do you think that LeBron could beat both those teams by himself? They made it to the Finals by beating one good team, Detroit, a so-so New Jersey, and a Butler/Arenas less Washington. No way in hell! There’s a large debate about how to make things better in more sports than basketball, like in crowning a National Championship for College Football. I just believe that the NBA would have such a better test on a Championship run if it was truly the best two teams making it through the “best” teams on their way. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll want to watch the Finals again!?!